- Date
- May 12, 1992, 08:10 local (14:10 UTC)
- Place
- Longmont, CO
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Landing
- Aircraft
- N53853Bellanca 7GCBC
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report July 23, 1993
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19920512020599A
- Case key
- 18208
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Probable cause
Loss of directional control during landing roll by the pilot under instruction. A factor was: inadequate supervision by the certified flight instructor.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
While conducting instruction for transition to a tail wheel aircraft the student and instructor allowed the aircraft to swerve during landing. The aircraft ground looped and the right main landing gear collapsed. The right wing and propeller were damaged by ground contact.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N53853
- Reported as
- Bellanca 7GCBC
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 908-76
- Airframe hours
- 1,047
- Engine
- Lycoming O-320-A2B, 150 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Operator
- Air West Flight Center, Inc.
- Registered owner
- Air West Flight Center, Inc.
- Airworthiness certificate
- Standard, Aerobatic; Standard, Normal
- Last inspection
- Annual · December 3, 1991 · 98 hours before
- Airport
- 2V2 · Vance Brand, runway 29, 4,800 × 75 ft, concrete
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 32
- Certificate
- Flight instructor
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Seat
- Rear
- Flight hours
- 1,750 total · 40 in this make and model · 1,706 as pilot in command · 317 in the last 90 days · 90 in the last 30 days
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 330° at 8 knots
- Visibility
- 30 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- 1,300 ft overcast
- Temperature
- 43 °F, dew point 37 °F
- Altimeter
- 30.00 inHg
- Observed at
- BJC, 20 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.
Other investigations on N53853 · 1
Matched to the same aircraft by N-number and date.